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Toward experiment-guided AlphaFold: Researchers overcome AI tool's single-conformation limitation
The AI-based program AlphaFold predicts a protein's 3D structure with remarkable accuracy.
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Researchers have made progress in addressing a limitation of the AI tool AlphaFold, which is used to predict protein structures. The AI program has been shown to be highly accurate in predicting the 3D structure of proteins, but it often reduces complex structures to a single dominant conformation. By overcoming this limitation, the researchers have taken a step toward creating a more experiment-guided version of AlphaFold.
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